Word: lushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Episodes from a late-night horror flick? Not at all. More like cinema verite. Once again, the Northeast has been infested by gypsy-moth caterpillars in record numbers. Last year the bugs chomped so voraciously through more than 5 million acres of woodland that the usually lush summer landscape looked as leafless as in late fall. This year's damage, patchily extending from northern Maine to Maryland and beyond, is far worse: an estimated 11 million acres of forest, an area larger than all of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...Palace dressed in a plain, dark flannel suit and a red tie. On hand to greet him at the top of the steps of the presidential palace was Giscard, who, after a brief handshake, took his successor to his old corner office, overlooking the Elysée's lush gardens. There the two politicians remained closeted for a 45-minute colloquy that symbolized the transfer of presidential power...
...plantation is still a ghostly presence. They revere the memory of Angel, the patriarch who founded the finca in the late 1880s and built the big rustic house with its brick pillars and its view reaching from tin-roofed barns to stone walls enclosing acre after acre of lush coffee bushes. For 60 years, the plantation prospered under Angel and his grandson Carlos. Then Carlos turned over the Finca Florencia to his four sons, and by the 1950s the farm was in the hands of a hired manager. The family had already moved to San Salvador; the hilltop views that...
...only as pop-up figures in a pop-art pageant, Boorman's knights and ladies look just right-like the children of a lost age or planet. Their acting is as green and lush as the rolling hills of Ireland, where the film was shot. Nigel Terry (Arthur) is no Sean Connery, the parfit gentil knight of Robin and Marian, but he passes persuasively from innocence to kingship to the realization that immortality can be won only through a fatal joust with his son and slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere...
...power survival. Then he brushed aside another old maxim: if you have to claim pre-eminence publicly, you have already lost it. In the past, such pronouncements have often been the point of no return down the slippery slope toward the premature opportunity to go back to high pay, lush fringe benefits and absolute authority in the old firm. The odd thing is that when it happens not many people so honored seem to enjoy their liberation...